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A Vibrant Platform At The Service Of Cluster Organisations

The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) is an action of the Cluster Internationalisation Programme for SMEs funded under COSME launched by DG GROW of the European Commission in 2016.
The ECCP provides networking and information support for clusters and their members aiming to improve their performance and increase their competitiveness through trans-national and international cooperation.

About Cluster Organisations

This is the stage on which cluster organisations present themselves - their structures, services, experiences and above all, their interest in cooperation with peers. We invite you to explore this diverse cluster community, identify your potential cooperation partner and show the world what you are good at - by profiling your organisation !

What is ESCP-4i?

The European Strategic Cluster Partnerships – Going International (ESCPs-4i) are transnational cluster partnerships that develop and implement a joint internationalination strategy and support SME internationalisation towards third countries beyond Europe.

What are ESCPs ?

The European Strategic Cluster Partnerships have been launched by the European Commission as effective means of supporting cross-border collaboration for the benefit of SMEs with the ultimate goal of boosting economic growth and competitiveness in Europe.

About matchmaking events

ECCP organises inter-European matchmaking events, as well as opportunities for you to meet your peers from other countries – either in EU or abroad. Find also additional international matchmaking opportunities promoted here.

About European Cluster Initiatives

As an information hub, ECCP collects and structures a wide variety of information relevant for cluster organisations from various European programmes and initiatives like the ones below.
These are supporting in different ways the interaction between clusters and for driving the competitiveness of European businesses. We offer you here the unique opportunity to find out more about the most relevant cluster-related projects and what you can learn from them. Or, why not, cooperate with them!

Imaginove is a triple-helix cluster, which federates and contributes to the expansion of projects and businesses in digital content and services industry in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, rated the second one in France due to its economic weight. Imaginove assembles about 200 members, mostly innovative SMEs, but also academics, researchers, laboratories and public bodies. Clusters’ activities stimulate the region’s dynamics and boost its national and global growth. Imaginove experts support innovative SMEs, laboratories and universities in three main domains: Research & Development, Human Resources, Internationalisation and Business development. Imaginove is working closely with other clusters in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region as well as with local centers of excellence. The local centres ecosystem represents more than 500 SMEs (6000 employees), 18 research centres and 12 schools specialised in the artistic and creative industries. Imaginove is working closely with such clusters as Cap Digital, Image&Reseaux, SCS etc. and is a member of a French national network of clusters.

The main countries addressed by the cluster organisation through international activities:

Canada

Japan

Republic of Korea (South Korea)

United States

Our cluster organisation undertook the following international activities to support our members:

Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairs

Trans-national Cooperation

The main countries addressed by the cluster organisation through trans-national activities:

Belgium

Germany

Spain

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Our cluster organisation undertook the following trans-national activities to support our members:

Support to collaborative activities/etc.

Which clusters do you collaborate with?:

MAC

Digital Catapult

Cap Digital

Images & Réseaux

MFG

Support Programmes

Participation in Funded Support Programmes:

European Programmes

Name & Description (Regional/National)

FP7

H2020

CIP/COSME

Other

Lyon Urban Data ( European Regional Development Fund) :

The Lyon Urban Data garthers since 2011 public and private actors who have the willingness to create a dynamic around the Smart City thematic. Besides, the « Grand Lyon » developped in 2012 a smart city strategy with the approach « Grand Lyon Métropole Intelligente » - « Big Lyon Smart Metropolis ». It integrates some différents elements : energy, innovating dematerialised services, new ways of mobility, territorial tools of innovation. This approach has the objective that the Grand Lyon becomes a lead territory for experimentations and the deployment of innovative services and purposes but also an actor, an enabler or a project initiator linked to his smart city strategy.

So, Lyon Urban Date aims to :

- build, to accompagn and to accelerate the co-creation and the expérimentation of new services and so to contribute of the « Grand Lyon Métropole Intelligente » approach

- set up and to develop a Living Lab destined to test in real way new services and tools of some purposes around this thematic in cooperation with companies, research laboratories, local collectivities and some users.

- favorise open innovation, to share networks and to implicate users since the beginning of the conception

- permit to its members to build a program by for exemple operating a mutualisation of their skills and their respective ressources.

The operations managed by the association and/or their members lead to the establishing of some specifics conventions stating for exemple the rights and the obligations of each one for the tasks of intellectual ownership.

Imaginove participated to following European projects:

Full partner in CReATE project (FP7) – CREaTE promoted trans- and cross-regional cooperation of stakeholders involved in highly innovative clusters in the creative industries sector. In line with the overall objective of the “Regions of Knowledge” programme CReATE had the objective to strengthen the research potential of European regions, in particular by encouraging and supporting the development, across Europe, of regional research- driven clusters.

Associated partner in ACE Creative project (H2020). ACE Creative is the next generation of the ACE Acceleration Programme. ACE Creative is aimed at start-ups and SMEs mixing the latest technologies with creativity. ACE Creative will leverage a European network of expertise in training, investment and business coaching, ensuring these companies rapidly gain entry and grow into international markets

In these projects, as well as in cluster’s daily activities, Imaginove is animating the digital content end services ecosystem, managing open calls, matchmaking events, linking SMEs, academia, laboratories for further collaboration.

Promotion

Success Story / Achievements:

Open Digital Lab

Launched in October 2015 and organised by Imaginove and the Foundation for the University of Lyon, the Open Digital Lab aims to support e-learnig projects and the emergence of student projects in the areas of digital content and new media. The project is built on a interinstitution collaboration and enables the sharing of educational resources. ODL brings together 50 students from 5 different faculties to work together in the creation and development of end-of- study projects.

Global Media Connect (GMC) - a national event organised by Imaginove three times a year.

The GMC is promoting the creation of hybrid projects - CCI and new digital usages applied to the content (image, sound, text , data) disseminated through the media ( smartphone, connected objects, tv, internet, robotics ... ) in any form of narration (application, video game, tv series , animation) , and regardless of the technologies used. Since its creation, more than 10 Global Media Connect were organized each one with a different thematic ( transmedia, e-learning, IoT, gaming etc.)

Imaginove is also organising an annual 2-days event, called Talent Day, which gathers more than 500 professionals of CCI and ICT industries.

- Mirage Festival in February 2015 organisation of a round table on the connection between artists

and researchers

- Project Booster: matchmaking events for representatives from industry, research and SMEs

Why partners should choose you for cooperation?:

First of all, our cluster has in his team an EU project manager, graduated in European affairs and EU project management. She has 4 years of experience, worked previously at Cap Digital Paris Region cluster, where she coordinated Work Packages of 3 EU projects (TELL US, ACE and Open Cities) and was organisating various European and International events at Futur en Seine Festival for 3 years. She joined Imaginove team in October 2015. Her mission is to manage Imaginove’s EU projects and enhance the visibility of the cluster at the European level.

Then, as we already said before, our cluster assembles about 200 members in Digital Content sector and also 5600 contacts. On the European level, Imaginove is a Steering Board member of NEM (The EU Technology platform for New European Media), member of an European Cluster Collaboration Platform with a Bronze label for Clusters Excellence, member of EEN network (Enterprise Europe Network).